Halloween Photoshoot

One of these days Kyleigh and Kennidie are going to grow out of dressing alike, so Heather and I have to take advantage of it while we can!  Had so much fun this past weekend taking pictures of the girls in their cute halloween outfits.

Custom Shirts: S&D Stitches 

Legwarmers are adult knee high socks that my mom cut down and stitched the edge on the bottom.

Breeanna our pre-teen!

The first time I was introduced to the entire Byrdak Family was at Breeanna’s 1st birthday party......gosh how time flies, I can’t believe Bree just turned 12 this past weekend!  I have been designing Breeanna’s invitations since her 2nd birthday, and now that she is a pre-teen we decided to go more fun funky and use the colors and patterns from her room.  We found some great damask paper with glitter and added a little extra bling with a swarovski crystal.

Great job Heather on the decorations and cake design, everything matched perfectly!

Until next year!

Holiday Cards

Not sure if I am ready to start thinking about Christmas shopping....but I am definitely in the Holiday Card spirit!

I am currently taking orders for custom cards on both flat or layered paper.  Will develop patterns, illustratons, color pallet to match input and photographs submitted (also available for mini sessions locally in the Chicago area).

Email for more information: jaimebyrdakdesigns@gmail.com

Baby Shower Invitations

A  college friend contacted me to make custom baby shower invites.  She wanted something simple and classy....so we started by looking at the guest of honor'a nursery design for inspiration.  Additionally, she had a cute limerick to incorporate within the invitations as well.

We settled on using gray and yellow to match the nursery and I created simple illustrations of a mommy and baby elephant and a mommy and baby giraffe that looked similar to art that will be displayed in the baby's room.  Also, given the limerick was a bit longer, we created a 2nd page with an "open me" statement and rounded the corner of the paper to illustrate something was underneath.

 Nursery Inspiration:

Kyleigh and CJ's Beach Party

Happy 2nd Birthday to Kyleigh and 9th Birthday to CJ!  This year we tried something new for our family party and combined the two kids together!  Thank you so much Heather and Tim for hosting at your house....the Beach theme turned out amazing!

Heather and I created custom beach ball invitations as well as real-size surf board decorations, and happy birthday flags just to name a few of the decorations.....  

Custom created poster welcoming everyone....p.s. happy birthday to Heather as well!

My special helper selected purple for the surfboard she helped design (along with polka-dots)

Denise from S&D Stitches embroidered towels for all of the cousins, they turned out awesome and all of the kids loved them....check out her facebook page: S+D Stitches

all of our loving family....thanks so much for celebrating with us:-)

AND FINALLY THE THANK YOUS!

Baby Lucy Photographs and Announcements

There is another baby girl in the bunch, congratulations to Erin and Dave on the arrival of sweet baby Lucy!  

A few months back, I was able to spend some fun time with friends and new mommy Erin on a girls night out in the city.  I spent the night at my old roomie Maureen’s and headed to Erin and Dave’s in the morning to photograph Lucy.  On top of being absolutely gorgeous...Lucy was as happy as can be, and absolute dream!  It literally took me one hour after I got home to edit all of the pictures....I couldn’t wait to share with the proud parents!

Just recently Erin asked if I could complete Lucy’s announcements and of course I could not resist.  After developing a few versions, Erin decided on using the illustrations I created from the onesie #‘s to match Lucy’s pottery barn bedding (Haley Collection).  I added as many pictures possible (including a backside one) on this announcement because they are just too beautiful not to share!  

 

Additionally, printed custom return addresses on the envelopes with the cute butterflies to match the theme.

Bedding Inspiration for design:

Up next....playdate for the girls!